Get Your Passport Ready!
Our trip will be a bit unconventional. Not only will we travel to Russia, but we will travel to Russia’s past. Dr. Carol Reynolds will be our tour guide in Imperial Russia as she takes students in grades 8-12 back to the time of medieval princes to look at major historical developments that shaped Russian history, architecture, folk art, the key contributions of many Russian authors, works of Ballets Russes, and the rise of revolutionary art and music in the early Soviet period. No trip abroad is complete without learning some of the language, so students will learn the Cyrillic alphabet and will have the opportunity to become familiar with Russian names and basic terms. This course includes video lectures by Professor Carol that are usually 45 minutes to an hour in length. We continue our tour of Russia in Renaissance History, the time period from 1100-1700, though we’ll have a few extra stops along the way. Elementary and middle school students will spend 36 weeks touring the history of the world from England to Russia through printable study text, written assignments, crafts, notebooking pages, lapbooks, links to videos and related maps, and other activities.
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